Episode 119 - I messed up at work and everyone saw
About this episode
This episode discusses the impact of making public mistakes at work and how it affects emotional processing, particularly for women.
I messed up at work and everyone saw Someone mentions a meeting from three weeks ago. An ordinary reference, nothing loaded in it. And your stomach drops because your brain has decided that any mention of that date, that room, that project, is a direct reference to the thing you got wrong. That's what it's like to carry a public mistake. Not the first 48 hours, when everything's raw and obvious. The bit after that, when the flinch reflex is still firing but you're supposed to be past it. This episode of Career Espresso is about what happens when you make a mistake at work and there were people in the room when it happened, and why that audience changes everything about how you process it afterwards. What you'll discover Why a mistake with an audience is a fundamentally different experience from one you can fix quietly, and what that audience does to your thinking What the research says about how much attention other people pay to your slip-up compared to how much you think they do Why women tend to carry public mistakes harder and longer, and why that's a rational response to an uneven system, not a personal failing Three patterns that turn a bad moment into a months-long…
People in this episode
Host: Amanda Owen-Meehan
Topics covered
- public mistakes
- workplace challenges
- emotional processing
- women in the workplace
- mistake recovery
- self-improvement
Keywords
- mistakes at work
- public mistakes
- emotional response
- workplace dynamics
- women's experiences
- self-reflection
More episodes of Career Espresso
- Episode 123 - How to stop being the person everyone vents to
- Episode 122 - What to do when your job has changed but nobody told you
- Episode 121 - How to ask for what you want at work
- Episode 120 - How to say "I Don't Know" without losing credibility
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